. Jefferson County and Birmingham, Alabama ... u r ein JeffersonCounty. Buts :nce theenormousamount o ffarm prod-ucts c o n - sumed daily in Greater Birming-ham and distributed throughout thedistrict, is now known and estimatedat fifteen thousand ($15,) dol-lars a day (which the writer thinkstoo low) enterprising men have begunto wake up and see if these productscannot be produced in JeffersonCounty instead of being shipped infrom long distances as is the case atpresent. It is popular belief thatsince Jefferson County is in fact ahilly and rather rugged country that Eighteen little oppor
. Jefferson County and Birmingham, Alabama ... u r ein JeffersonCounty. Buts :nce theenormousamount o ffarm prod-ucts c o n - sumed daily in Greater Birming-ham and distributed throughout thedistrict, is now known and estimatedat fifteen thousand ($15,) dol-lars a day (which the writer thinkstoo low) enterprising men have begunto wake up and see if these productscannot be produced in JeffersonCounty instead of being shipped infrom long distances as is the case atpresent. It is popular belief thatsince Jefferson County is in fact ahilly and rather rugged country that Eighteen little opportunity exists for agricultur-al development and it is the purposeof this short article to relate not onlywhat is being done in a farming way,but call attention to what is possiblethrough rational management of thesoils of this county. SOILS.—It is probably not incor-rect to say that Jefferson County con-tains within its boundaries and inclose proximity to Birmingham awider range or more different anddistinct classes of soil than any county. FIELD OF NAVY BEANS ON TRUCK FARM IN JEFFERSON COUNTY in the South. The predominant soil,however, may be said to be what isknown as red lands, although thereis plenty sandy lands, chocolateloams, sandy loams, grey loams, anda great quantity of a complex char-acter not easily defined. Most ofthese soils are under-laid with aporous red clay giving them a goodfoundation, thus rendering them ca-pable of high development underproper management. I will not at-tempt to discuss the most rational methods of treatment of the differentsoils to bring them into a high stateof cultivation because it would leadto confusion as so much depends onthe class of crops to be it is enough to say that our soilsare naturally rich in a number ofmineral elements so essential to theproper development of plant most important of these saltsis potash, in which the red lands areespecially prolific. The deficiencywhere it exists at all is usually c
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